A Hopeful Thought

As Zac continued to swim harder and harder, it seemed like the beach wasn’t getting any closer. “It took everything I had to hold on to him,” he later said. Not one to give up, Zac kept his head down and kept swimming, sure that help would arrive soon. “The lifeguards are out there somewhere,” he remembers telling himself at the time. “They’ll eventually come, so I’m going to keep his head above water and just wait it out.”

Meanwhile, on the beach, Cindy noticed that her husband was slowing down. “That’s when I started to panic. I was thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s not going to make it back in,” she said. Thankfully, others on the beach were taking action.